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Jacqueline Bloch, magician of light
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09.17.2026 |
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Quantum physics
The outstanding physicist Jacqueline Bloch is a specialist in polaritons, microscopic objects halfway between matter and light. She has just been awarded the CNRS Gold Medal, France’s highest scientific distinction. A portrait.
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The many tricks of roaming cells
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09.09.2026 |
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Biology
The ability of a cell to move underpins several biological processes, including healing and cancer. Several CNRS teams are trying to unravel the molecular mechanisms in play.
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Fields day for Hong Wang
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07.22.2026 |
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Mathematics
The Chinese mathematician Hong Wang is the co-winner of the 2026 Fields Medal (the equivalent of the Nobel prize for the discipline). This distinction recognises work on solutions for the Kakeya conjecture in three dimensions, an extension from a century-old problem at the interface of mathematics and geometry. CNRS News provides insights.
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Solving the Schrödinger equation with imagination
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09.22.2026 |
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Quantum physics A governing equation in quantum mechanics, the Schrödinger equation is, in practice, impossible to solve exactly. The mathematicians Éric Cancès, Mathieu Lewin, and Julien Toulouse have now proposed a radical reformulation of it, in order to study complex systems that resist exploration by... |
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Hunting down the cyber mafia
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07.21.2026 |
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Computer science Ransomware is a type of malicious software (malware) that develops within an ecosystem combining criminality, cyber espionage, and disinformation. CNRS News investigates. |
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Maths and the beach
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07.23.2026 |
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Mathematics Holiday-makers cross paths at the beach, but so do multiple facets of physics and mathematics. Three research projects are working to better describe this environment so highly sensitive to climate change. |
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Red card for Trump
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07.06.2026 |
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Political economy Since 2018, the Trump administration has been waging a trade war through successive hikes in customs duties. Has this policy protected the American economy? Researchers argue that, by fuelling uncertainty, it has actually had the opposite effect. |
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The brain knows the score
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07.24.2026 |
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Musicology Behind the pleasure of listening to a song lies an astonishing brain activity: an anticipatory mechanism that translates simple vibrations into emotions. A phenomenon that is especially used in electronic music. |
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Windows to a dream world
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09.25.2026 |
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Cartography Virtual globes, 2D or 3D representations of the world produced from digital data, can fool us into thinking that we now know everything there is to know about the Earth. But a deluge of data is no guarantee of a better picture of “reality”. |
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